Walmart is already selling instruments, just the cheap ones that parents usually get for their child's first instrument.  That has already hurt guitar shop owners.

This is horrible.  First the record store, now they're trying to kill off guitar shops.  Leave them the fuck alone.  I would much rather go to a guitar shop and find a wide range of brands to choose from.  With this now, it's going to be what's most popular and that's it, fuck the rest of them.  This is disgusting.

Damn good article. 

It's a damn shame this guy isn't in GNR anymore.

A lot of the mystique is gone from this project. 

Because TWAT made it so far in the elimination thread, i gave it a listen again yesterday.  Then i gave the 2006/2007 version a listen, the one without the weird intro and without the beefed up rythym parts.  I have to say, i like the 2006 version a lot better.  To me, that song has more balls back then.

Time has taken away a lot of that mystique.  Since 2005, we've got a stream of good quality leaks, progressing to these current ones that seem finished. 

For me, the anticipation has gone down a lot.  I'm not excited for this album like i was before.  Doesn't mean i won't still buy it the day it comes out and listen to it on repeat for a while, it just means that i too am diving into other music as well.

You gave up on this album too early James.  Like you said, Superunknown was an album that would have been near impossible to top.  Judging by this album, i don't think that was their goal.  What they came out with was an album that was in a lot of way more subtle than their other ones. 

Great album.  Certainly very different from their previous ones, but all the members shine on this album like any other.  It's got some great lyrics and vocals from Cornell. 

Fully agree that he needs to reunite this band.  This is another band i could see making an album that's actually worth something again.